Toasting Marshmallows: An Original Poem

I love September! The days are still warm. The nights are cooler. There's less humidity. Crickets serenade us loudly at night. It's a wonderful time of the year to camp out...or to have a barbecue.

That's why I selected a poem I wrote about toasting marshmallows to post for this holiday weekend.

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Toasting Marshmallows

I pierce

two candied clouds…

a pair of whipped sugar pillows

with a wooden stick,

toast them over the campfire

till they’re warm and brown

and their insides ooze

sticky white lava

when I bite in.

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• Coming next Friday--my review of Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night, written by Joyce Sidman and Illustrated by Rick Allen.
• At Blue Rose Girls, I have a poem by Kalli Dakos titled A Teacher's Lament.
• Susan Taylor Brown has the Poetry Friday Roundup this week.